Etymology

Noun

1. A brothel.
   • 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon 2001, p. 33:

     A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar.

Noun

1. brothel
   • c. 254–184 BCE — Plautus, Bacchides 3.3

     qui in lupanari accubat.

     who relaxes in the brothel.